Birds have been migrating for all of recorded history, but how they pull off their globetrotting travels without a map or GPS ...

Birds navigate using magnetoreception, revealing nature’s brilliance as science uncovers the secrets of Earth's magnetic ...

Hans Fromme had found in Frankfurt that when he placed his European robins into a steel chamber and reduced the strength of the ambient magnetic field by a third, the birds' flutterings were no ...

The most difficult one for us to comprehend may be the earth’s magnetic field. Birds see it, but what it looks like to them, nobody knows. Work by Roswitha and Wolfgang Wiltschko in Germany ...

Creatures from migratory eels and other fish species to insects to birds tap into the Earth’s magnetic field to navigate, sometimes many thousands of miles. But so far, evidence has been scant for any ...

Birds are thought to be able to navigate by ‘seeing’ the Earth’s magnetic field. Birds are thought to be able to navigate by ‘seeing’ the Earth’s magnetic field. This enables some ...

Will migrating birds relying on the field become hopelessly ... which forms electrical currents that generate the magnetic field in a process called a dynamo. His team hopes to find out how ...

The Earth’s magnetic field quietly supports life on the planet and now, for the first time, its invisible powers have been used to create new nano particles and materials. Scientists at Flinders ...